Re: [Exim] Opinions sought: Exim and MYSQL

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:

> Some months ago Paul Kelly sent me some patches for Exim in support of
> MYSQL lookups. They have now managed to get my attention. The basic
> concept is another lookup type called "mysql", and I've been checking

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> above query would be something like
>
> mysql:///id='ph10'?some_field?some_table?
>
> However, in the LDAP case the URL-parsing code is provided as part of
> the LDAP library. It would have to be written for MYSQL.

Hrm.. how about being allow to specify the exact SQL query that is
used, as an expanded string? Seems that would be the most flexible.


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